• TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I mean, southwest Colorado was part of the Dust Bowl. Culturally it’s definitely part of the Great Plains area. I would argue that eastern Wyoming and Montana are as well. They have more in common with the Dakotas than they do with the Rockies.

    I still wouldn’t consider it the Midwest, but at least there’s a tenuous thread of logic to the idea.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      Southwest Colorado would be Durango / Montrose which is on west side of the Rockies! You think that’s part of the Great Plains area?

      Even SE Colorado such as Pueblo and Lamar are very distinct from towns and cities east of North Platte, Nebraska.

      Culturally Eastern Nebraska is heavily Germanic / Western European Immigrant. Hell up into the 2000s there were still lots of little churches with at least one weekly service conducted in German. You won’t find that in Pueblo.

      I’m struggling to understand all of these cultural similarities that some of you see. Yes they’re all Americans but everything from the type of soil they live on to their ancestry and immigration patterns is WILDLY different between Lincoln and Pueblo.